News from July 2020
By Labor Gazette | Jul 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor took a range of actions to aid American workers and employers as our nation combats the coronavirus pandemic.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2020
News Release: This morning a 65-year-old male from Chester Heights, PA died in the Atlantic Ocean off a beach on Ocracoke Island at Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore), North Carolina.
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2020
News Release: Bronx, NY- Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today issued the following statement on Turkish President Erdogan’s announcement to convert the Hagia Museum into a mosque...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal expressed his concern over the Trump Administration’s proposed rule that would protect workplace health plans that don’t meet all of the Affordable Care Act’s regulations...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released its reports accompanying the fiscal year 2021 Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies and Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bills.
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the United States and Vietnam:
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2020
News Release: Los Alamos, NM - With construction complete and the Pueblo Loop Trail (formerly known as the Main Loop Trail) now open, Bandelier National Monument will resume charging entrance fees on.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2020
News Release: On July 10, at approximately 11:00 AM (ET), a male 52-year-old Stearns resident was swimming across from the Blue Heron Boat Launch with family when he submerged underwater and never reappeared. The victim’s relatives reported the incident to park rangers 10 minutes later.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On June 26, Associated Pain Specialists, P.C., of Knoxville, a pain management based clinic, agreed to pay $400,000 to resolve allegations of violating the False Claims Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2020
News Release: Concord, NH - Last night, the U.S. Marshals - New Hampshire Joint Fugitive Task Force was able to locate and arrest a former Alabama police officer who was on the run from some very serious charges. Joshua Matthew Davidson, 30 years-of-age whose last known address was in Fort Deposit, Alabama, was located and arrested in an apartment on C Street in Hampton, New Hampshire.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2020
News Release: National Park Service Regional Director Mike Reynolds announced the selection of Oralia Fernandez as superintendent of Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park in Texas. This position will report to the superintendent of Padre Island National Seashore. Fernandez has more than 24 years of National...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2020
News Release: Please Note that the information on this News Release is outdated.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2020
News Release: With construction complete and the Pueblo Loop Trail (formerly known as the Main Loop Trail) now open, Bandelier National Monument will resume charging entrance fees on.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Today, Acting Secretary Chad F. Wolf will be traveling with President Donald J. Trump to Miami, FL. There, President Trump and Acting Secretary Wolf will receive a briefing from U.S Southern Command on the advances of the Enhanced Counter Narcotics Operations since April 1st in the Caribbean and the ...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Pandemic EBT to Feed Children during COVID-19 National Emergency (Washington, D.C., July 10, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced Nevada has been approved to operate Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), a new program authorized by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), signed by President Trump, which provides assistance to families of children eligible for free or reduced-price meals dealing with school closures.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, July 10, 2020 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced approximately $4 million in available funding to develop partnerships to leverage USDA and local, state, and private sector resources to address challenges for limited resource, socially disadvantaged, and veteran farmers and ranchers, and communities. The program is administered by the USDA Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement (OPPE).
By USDA Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C., July 10, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that Dr. Parag Chitnis will serve as Acting Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) upon the departure of Dr. Scott Angle.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: A Mississippi businessman pleaded guilty Thursday for his role in a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud TRICARE, the health care benefit program serving U.S. military, veterans, and their respective family members, as well as private health care benefit programs, by paying kickbacks to practitioners ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice will hold a virtual public workshop on July 28th and 29th, 2020, to discuss competition in the licensing of public performance rights in the music industry. The workshop will provide a further venue for industry stakeholders to weigh in on the American Society of Composers, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: A Florida man was arrested today on allegations that he fraudulently sought several Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, and that he participated in a scheme to defraud Medicare of at least $5.6 million. It is further alleged that a portion of the PPP loan proceeds were potentially used in furtherance of the Medicare fraud scheme.
